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Nigeria gives food aid to ex-combatants

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    A consignment of 5,000 bags of rice and medicines donated to Sierra Leonean ex-combatants by Nigeria was handed over and distributed at ECOMOG headquarters in Freetown on Tuesday, according to an official statement from Nigeria.

    During the handing over ceremony the Nigerian High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Alhaji Abubakar, appealed for the ex-combatants to lay down their arms and for peace to prevail. ECOMOG Force Commander Major General Gabriel Kpamber said that 4,000 bags of rice would be given to the RUF/AFRC and 1,000 bags of rice to the Civil Defence Force (CDF).

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